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Bathroom comes with the house??!!

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greencygnets · 29/07/2018 12:10

So DH and I have just bought a new house (not brand new but new to us :)) and it cost us a lot of money (far more than a care to admit! :))
We moved in yesterday, the house is perfect except for one thing...

They've taken the bloody bathroom with them!!!!

One of the two main bathrooms upstairs is literally empty, like I don't mean just the furniture which you obviously take with you. But they've taken the bath, sink and shower!!!!

The room is tiled but theres random pipes sticking out of walls where these things should be!! The only thing left is the toilet. I honestly don't know what to do... We were going to redo the bathroom anyway at some point but never told this to anybody and weren't planning to do so until at least November/December time but now we don't have a choice!!

The kids come home from the holiday with my in-laws on Tuesday and we've got no bathroom for them!!!!

AIBU to think that the bathroom comes with the house, or is it totally reasonable to take the bathroom with you to your new house??!!

OP posts:
Failingat40 · 30/07/2018 22:37

I hope you have taken photos and video of the bald bathroom and emailed it to your solicitor rather than just relying on phone calls?

It's more likely that the bathroom stealers actually flogged the bathroom suite second hand to some unsuspecting buyers, rather than taking it with them surely?

sayhellotothelittlefella · 30/07/2018 22:53

DH tells a story of a bloke who worked for him who bought a house off a fairly shady character ( who worked in construction). When they turned up with the van to move in they opened the door and the vendor had NICKED THE STAIRCASE. Shock

Userplusnumbers · 30/07/2018 23:10

Looking forward to the next update OP. CFuckery of the highest order!

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 30/07/2018 23:23

I wish the vendors had taken the bathroom when we bought this place. It’s fucking hideous. Naff suite with naff tiles and hideous wall colour. It was going to be the first job when we moved in but needless to say it’s been postponed. They did leave us some nice curtains though which we’ve kept so fair enough. And the handmade kitchen is lovely. Grin

Seabreeze18 · 31/07/2018 06:36

Surely the solicitors have a forwarding address? A letter needs to be delivered stating what needs to be done before they are taken to court?

strawberrisc · 31/07/2018 06:42

Placemarking 🛀

NicoAndTheNiners · 31/07/2018 07:10

I would imagine they’re so stupid/cheeky that they will just attempt To ignore all solicitor contact for as long as possible.
Hoping you’ll give up.

Hope you take them to court OP but in the meantime you’ll have to buy a bathroom which is shit!

QuoadUltra · 31/07/2018 07:29

This has court action all over it. The good news is they will probably have to pay for your new bathroom.

youarenotkiddingme · 31/07/2018 07:32

Well I woke up early and wondered what I'd do - this thread has provided an hour of amusement!

(Sorry it's at your cost!)

Hopefully you'll hear back today but I imagine their solicitor is struggling to get in contact with them - surely they must know it's about "Bathgate" and be avoiding his calls. Technically as you owned the house when they removed it it's theft?

KeiTeNgeNge · 31/07/2018 07:40

What an odd situation

Cuttingthegrass · 31/07/2018 07:43

If bathroom stealers have moved into rental there may be no redress available if no forwarding address. Terrible situation.

OP I hope you've read the meters etc including water meter and they correspond with the numbers the bathroom stealers phoned through.

I hope you've changed the locks too

Rememory · 31/07/2018 07:52

How on earth could they think this was okay to do? It's insane!

VelociraptorRex · 31/07/2018 08:03

@MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig I was about to say the same thing about our new house! Utterly hideous, it was a pleasure to let the builders rip it out!

ShakeShakeTheMuffin · 31/07/2018 08:10

Hope the solicitor gets a good result for you OP!

MachineBee · 31/07/2018 08:42

We’ve often experienced a slight delay after completion and being able to move in. But our current house was beyond reasonable. Our vendors had only started to move out the evening before, moving themselves using a small hire van. We were supposed to move in on the Friday- it took them until Sunday afternoon before house was empty (mostly - they left a fish tank and asked us to feed fish!!!!!).

‘Fortunately’ because they messed us around with last minute changes to completion date, and we’d been forced to move out to my MILs for four weeks to ensure we kept our buying chain. All our property was in storage with our removal firm and we were ‘lucky’ they were able to hold on to it all and move us in on the Monday (our removal van was booked in for an MOT on the Monday and therefore still available for us to be moved in).

When they walked us through the house on the Sunday, they kindly pointed out everything that was wrong with the house, totally depressing my normally very chirpy DH.

The vendors then sent us a snotty letter via both solicitors saying they would not be allowing their forwarding addresses to be made available to us so we couldn’t sue them.

We were so knackered by then and had lots of other crap going on in our lives (bereavements and family divorces) we let it all go.

But the real cherry on the top came a couple of weeks later, when a man with a van arrived to ‘pick up the range cooker’. He was sent packing with a strongly worded message for his client!

PS - all the ‘problems’ outlined by the vendor on the walk through either never materialised or were simply fixed with a screwdriver. We love our house and on the odd occasion our vendors’ names come up - we just smile and hope the universe has taken care of them. Grin

TheLionRoars1110 · 31/07/2018 09:15

I suspect they'll try and ignore their own solicitor. I'd be talking to your solicitor about what is required to sue them.

slovenlys · 31/07/2018 09:15

@PsychedelicSheep on your (and my) MN you have to swipe the post to the left (can you see the arrow to the right of each individual post?) that will give you the option to bookmark the post.

If you scroll to the top of the thread you can do the same (swipe) on the title of the thread and that gives you the option to watch the thread

Am assuming you're using the app on an iPhone/iPad?

PsychedelicSheep · 31/07/2018 09:26

Ohhh yes I see now! Thank you slovenlys! Thanks

Tinty · 31/07/2018 09:36

Just a small question. @greencygnets Was it a very expensive/fancy bathroom? I was just asking because otherwise why would you take it. Unless they were moving in somewhere without a bathroom.

chicazteca · 31/07/2018 09:38
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Larrythecat · 31/07/2018 11:03

Contact also the estate agent who sold your house. We had the opposite problem. We left fixtures that had not been listed but in my opinion were standard (carpets, curtain rails, etc) and bits and pieces for replacement or fixing stuff, such as the matching leftover paint, matching leftover bathroom tiles, (new) spare kitchen cupboard doors, etc. Buyer said it was all rubbish and I needed to pay for a skip to remove. DH was in hospital and I had done the whole move with MIL, who had already returned to her house down south. I had no car and two children to look after, and the buyer was completely unreasonable and threatened us with a court claims case (or whatever it's called, the one where you go to claim costs). The estate agents were the ones who were all time involved back and forth. Buyer ended up taking the carpets and curtain rails with a skip, but we had to take all spares and paint from garage. I ended up enlisting the help of Freecycle to collect things on the Saturday morning, buyer agreed to leave garage open until noon. We had left a expensive bottle of wine and a card welcoming them to the house. I so regretted it! They knew DH was in hospital and I had two pre-schoolers, but he demanded we took things within 48h nevertheless. We could have done it without issue a couple of weeks later. We thought we were being nice leaving the spares and fixings, but you live you learn!

Booboo66 · 31/07/2018 11:14

👀 popping these here to placemark (prepared for the ‘three dots’ lecture)

Jux · 31/07/2018 11:29

I placemark so that the thread stays on my I'm On list, which is where I go first. I do Watch some threads but generally forget to look at them (or can't be bothered, because there's plenty on I'm On already).

I expect I started using I'm On before the Watch facility was set up - can't remember. It used to be all fields.......

Original poster
greencygnets · 31/07/2018 11:57

@Tinty it was a nice enough bathroom, but nothing super special!

Anyway, another update for you all.

Solicitor phoned saying that the other solicitor heard back from the bathroom stealers.
Apparently they couldn't see the problem in it, they paid for the bathroom therefore they should keep it. They thought they were being nice by leaving everything else that they paid for (kitchen, other bathrooms...)!!!
Madness!!

But even their solicitor is against it and has explained to them that is not how it works and all fitting are expected to be left except what specified. Not heard anymore other than that our solicitor seems to think it will be all over with money in our bank account by Friday...

Kids are coming home today, can't wait to show them the new house and Mummy's makeshift bathroom!! :)

OP posts:
HermansHermit · 31/07/2018 12:04

Kids are coming home today, can't wait to show them the new house and Mummy's makeshift bathroom!!

my mind is boggling at what a makeshift bathroom might involve!

(This from someone who has been camping off grid)

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